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For me, the main appeal of extended recovery times is what the bad guys are able to do in the time it takes for the PCs to get back on their feet. More interesting developments can occur given a longer time, especially when limited to nonmagical travel and communication.

Recuperating requires a DC 15 Constitution save after 3 days downtime.

Several of these rules are inspired by XCOM. 1. Make sure the baddies are making proper use of cover. 2. Any creature out of cover, who is not protected by a shield, heavy armor, or natural armor, is considered flanked by any ranged attacker. 3. All healing gets shifted up by one rest category...

The natural approach for me has been to bounce back and forth between recent and ancient history. The 2E Worldbuilder's Guidebook has some good random tables. My general pattern has been to stick to the immediately relevant details during the session, and then jump back to fill out origin...

For me, the problem is this: The natural consequence for losing a battle is whatever the bad guys are able to do unhindered while the PCs are recovering. If recovery is only eight hours, then those consequences are limited to whatever the bad guys can do in eight hours, which isn't actually...

One thing you might do, which I have in my campaign, is not worry about moneychanging most of the time, but have one country that is tedious about this, where the PCs aren't expected to stay and indeed will probably want to leave as soon as possible. There they might have a debased currency...

I tend to think that the gold value required for the diamond is a shorthand representing some actual minimum combination of weight and purity -- in other words, a 500 gp diamond doesn't become usable for resurrection through the act of rich widows having a bidding war over it. Raise dead...

Flattening the massive damage threshold scaling seems like a good idea. Making use of the lingering injury table would add to attrition. While it's not a standard d20 check, the table is ordered with the worst effects lowest, so advantage/disadvantage conditions might be worth having. Say any...

You have to wonder, specifically, how diamonds would be handled in the economy where their chief use is resurrection insurance. I tend to think that whatever their open market value, diamonds would be hoarded and traded at highly inflated values except perhaps in areas directly around where...

One thing you might get, in a society where clerics are officially entrenched in the legal system (as opposed to being treated as contracted professionals), is a division of labor between different clerical orders, where the priests of, say, Anubis, are responsible for using zone of truth at...

Re: Spell Mastery-- Remember, ability prerequisites should always be odd, because there is basically no other reason to bump a score up to an odd number.

And here I thought this was going to be about fantasy potato-tobacco plants.

One thing I've wanted to try for a while is, in a time-travel plot, introduce a group of heroes from an alternate timeline trying to 'correct' history to something other than what the PCs recognize.

Need to move at full speed while balancing a full tray? Waiter walk.

That sounds similar to the "Timeless Space" portrayed in Sluggy Freelance, which might be some interesting reference. http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/050131

I don't know how this would fit, but I think it's a cool concept for a template to put on some monsters/NPCs. Time-lost Also known as the Forgotten, the time-lost are characters who have somehow become separated from the normal flow of time. Displaced time travelers or the survivors of...

One thing I sort of got from Skyrim is the idea of using a small number of monsters as widely known benchmarks (in the sense that while a lot of it was scaled, frost trolls were pretty hard before about level 10, as were giants before level 20.) That translated to an idea about having folk...

I don't know how gonzo this can be, using stuff more or less straight out of the book. Elbergrund the Younger, Halfling Barbarian (Noble Background) The prince of an obscure tribe from the distant north, prophesied to lead his people to a new homeland. Although he has made his best efforts to...

Starblight Crystal All creatures within a (X) radius sphere must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 4d8 radiant damage, 4d8 necrotic damage, is blinded, and is considered poisoned until the target recuperates or receives magical healing. On a successful save, a...

Short ideas: -The party is part of a peacekeeping force patrolling a province on the verge of rebellion. Structured hexcrawling. -The party gets embedded with the bad guys as spies while clearing a dungeon for them. Vanilla dungeon, but with a twist on downtime. -The party gets awarded land...